BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Richland Co., Ohio
Past and Present
Illustrated
Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co.
1807 - 1880
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Butler Twp. -
JACOB SAMSEL, farmer; P. O. Shenandoah; he
was born in Olivesburg Aug. 6, 1836, and is a son of Peter
and Mary Samsel, who came from Germany in 1836; he remained
at home until he was 16 years old, when he went to learn the
cabinet-making trade, which he followed one year, and then had
to give it up on account of his health; he then went back on the
farm at home, where he remained until he was married, June 7,
1858, to Sarah J. Oberlin, of this township; after his
marriage, he bought where he now resides and has since lived.
In May, 1872, his wife died, and left him two children, whose
names are Franklin B. and Emma J. After several
years, he was married to Eliza A. Glenn, of Weller
Township; they have one child.
— Bertha C. Mr. S. has held the office of
District Clerk nine years in succession, and other minor offices
in the township, and has, by his industry and strict attention
to business, made for himself and family a fine home; he
believes that the best, in the way of stock and farming
implements, are the cheapest.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio from 1808 to 1908 - by
A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Publ. 1908 - Pg. 772 |
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Sandusky Twp. -
JOSIAH SCOTT, farmer; P. O. Galion; he was
born in Sandusky Township May 4, 1843. Married, in 1869,
to Mary Brown, who was born in Wayne Co., Ind.; they have
the following family: Mary Alice, deceased;
Lydia Idella, born June 17, 1871; Katy Ann, May 22,
1873; Sylvia Rosetta, Aug. 13, 1875; William Franklin,
Jan. 3, 1878; Cora Elca, Dec. 24, 1879. Mr.
Scott enlisted in the late war, in 1861, in the 1st O.
Independent Battery; he was engaged during the entire war.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio from 1808 to 1908 - by
A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Publ. 1908 - Pg. 876 |
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Sandusky Twp. -
WILLIAM SCOTT, farmer; P. O. Crestline;
was born on the farm then owned by Gov. Snyder, in Union
Co., Penn., on Sept. 15, 1815, and removed to Sandusky Township,
in this county, in 1835; he paid $150 for 40 acres in the woods,
and commenced clearing off the timber; the next day after his
cabin was raised, it was thrown down by a falling tree, but it
was soon rebuilt and occupied; he afterward sold his 40 acres
with the improvements he had made upon it, for $350, which
enabled him to purchase an unimproved 80 acre tract, in the
immediate vicmty, to which he has since added the adjomng 80
acre tract, making a farm of 160 acres, now well improved, and
considered one of the best farms in the neighborhood.
Mr. Scott was first married to Mary Ann, daughter of
the late Daniel Riblet; she was born in 1817, and
died June 3, 1858; his second wife, Eliza, daughter of
the late John Bookwalter and widow of Samuel Freed,
died in 1869. He was married to his present wife,
Charity, daughter of Jacob Sprow, and widow of the
late David L. Chambers, in March, 1876; she was born July
10, 1828.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio from 1808 to 1908 - by A.
J. Baughman - Vol. II - Publ. 1908 - Pg. 876 |
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Jefferson Twp. -
MRS. MARIA
SHELDON, widow of Alvah Sheldon;
she was born in Berkshire Co., Mass., Oct. 6, 1801; her maiden
name was Cotton; she emigrated, with her uncle, to
Penfield, N. Y., near Rochester, when she was about 23 years of
age. She was married to Mr. Sheldon in
September, 1825, and remained near Rochester some twelve years;
they then moved to the town of Royalton, Niagara Co., where they
remained nineteen years; they then emigrated to New
Philadelphia, Ohio, where they lived three years; thence to
Richland Co. in the fall of 1857, where she has since resided.
Mr. Sheldon was born in Vermont Aug. 17, 1799; he
died in Richland Co. in September, 1858. Mrs.
Sheldon is a lady who stands well in the community; she is
the mother of eleven children, seven of whom are living—four
boys and three girls; six of them live in Richland Co. and one
lives in Greene Co., N. Y. Her daughter, Mrs. Mary P.
Porter, was born in September, 1839, in Niagara Co., N. Y.;
she was married to John Porter in November, 1865.
Mr. Porter died in October, 1866, leaving
one son.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio from 1808 to 1908 - by A.
J. Baughman - Vol. II - Publ. 1908 - Pg. 796 |
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Franklin Twp. -
SAMUEL SIMPSON, farmer; P. O. Mansfield.
He was born in Mifflin Township, Nov. 7, 1842. He was
married in 1869, to Sarah Snyder, who was born in Mifflin
Township Nov. 19, 1842; they have the following family:
Emma Estella, born Jan. 8, 1871; John Steward, born
Nov. 1, 1872; Frank Jenner, born Jan. 13, 1879.
Mr. Simpson has been a citizen of this county from infancy;
came to Franklin Township in 1874, purchased a farm, is now
residing on it, and is one of the enterprising men of this
township.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 787 |
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Sharon Twp. -
SLAYBAUGH, D. B., was born in Richland Co. Feb. 8, 1846;
he is engaged in the manufacture of brick, in which he has been
successful. He first commenced the business with his
father, and, after continuing with him for some time, he
purchased his father's interest, and has since been sole
proprietor. He has furnished most of the brick for the
town and surrounding country. He was married to Miss
Alice J. Curran July 27, 1871; she was born in Indiana Jan.
6, 1855.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page |
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Franklin Twp. -
JOHN W. SMALL, farmer; P. O. Mansfield.
He was born in Franklin Co., Penn., Oct. 24, 1812, and was
married in 1835 to Margaret Snyder, who was born June 1,
1815, in Lancaster Co., Penn.; they have the following family:
Philip, born Jul. 10, 1836; David, born Nov. 30,
1837; Anna, born June 16, 1840; Lydia, born Jan.
8, 1843; Simon, born Mar. 13, 1848; Margaret, born
Oct. 9, 1851; Martha, born July 13, 1854; John,
born Jan. 16, 1857; Allie, born May 31, 1860.
Martha died at the age of 7 months and 6 days; Philip,
died in November, 1871; David Small enlisted in the late
army, Co. D, 102d O. V. I.; he was engaged in the service about
three years; he now resides in Mercer Co., Ohio; Anna
married John
Browneller, they reside in Franklin Township; Lydia
married Thomas Taylor, they reside in Mansfield; Simon
married Lizzie Taylor, they reside in Mansfield; John
married Lizzie Wareham, they reside in Mansfield.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 787 |
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City of Mansfield -
E. W. SMITH, insurance and real-estate agent; he was born
in Washington Township, Richland Co., May 8, 1822.
Married, Sept. 26, 1854, in Zanesville, Ohio, to Sarah
Guthrie Metcalf, who was born July 10, 1835, at
Lenox, Berkshire Co., Mass.; they have the following children:
Caroline L., born Mar. 2, 1856; Anna M., May 15,
1860; S. Dwight, May 6, 1868. Mr. Smith was
raised on a farm in this county. He graduated at Oberlin College
in 1845. In 1846, he went to Chicago with Rev. J. B.
Walker, and assisted him in conducting a paper called the
Herald of the Prairies; continued there three years, and then
returned to Mansfield. In 1850, he and M. Day
bought of J. C. Gilkison, and established the Mansfield
Herald, which is yet published under the same name. While
engaged in the publication of this paper, he was appointed,
without solicitation, in 1851, General Agent of the American
Bible Society for one-half of the State of Ohio, and continued
in that work till May, 1870. Afterward engaged in the
real-estate and insurance business, and still continues in that
work.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A., Graham
& Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 735 |
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Worthington Twp. -
HENRY SMITH, farmer; P. O. Newville; was born in Germany
in 1802; he and his father were both farmers; they emigrated to
Stark Co. in 1837, and bought 40 acres of land. Our
subject was married to Elizabeth Sprou; they had two
children in Germany, three in Stark Co., four in Richland Co.;
came to this county in 1843 and bought 160 acres for $1,500,
afterward bought 9 acres for $700. He and his wife belong
to the Lutheran Church; his wife was born in 1804; her ancestors
were also farmers. His sons farm for him.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 932 |
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City of Mansfield -
SMITH, HIRAM R.; retired merchant.
His father, Asa Smith, was born at Albany, N. Y.,
September, 1760; died on his farm near Huron, Ohio, Aug. 30,
1815. His mother (her maiden name Hannah
Richmond) was born at Providence, R. I., Mar. 21, 1774; died
at Sandusky City Aug. 30, 1842. His parents with their
family—four daughters and two sons—emigrated to Ohio just before
the war of 1812; they embarked on a sail-boat (before any
steamer was on the lake) at Buffalo for Ohio, and landed at the
mouth of Huron River, where they located their farm adjoining
the present village of Huron; here they remained during the war,
encountering all the privations of a pioneer life and dangers
from the Indians, who were prowling all over this section of
country at that time. Here the subject of this memoir,
Hiram R. Smith, was born, on the banks of Lake Erie near
Huron, Ohio, Jan. 7, 1813. He came to Mansfield September,
1824; lived with Hugh McFall, tending store
morning and evening, and went to school during the day; his
teacher was Col. Alexander Barr, who kept in the old
frame schoolhouse of one room, known as the Big Spring
Schoolhouse, on the ground where the soap factory now stands.
He lived with Hugh McFall fifteen years as salesman in a
general stock of goods. From 1824 until the opening of the
New York Canal, there was no market for the products of the
country; therefore no prices to remunerate the farmer—wheat, 25
cents; corn, 12½ oats, 10;
flour, $1.50 per barrel; pork, $l.50 per hundred; butter, 5 to 6
cents per pound; eggs, 3 to 4 cents per dozen. Goods were
bought in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, loaded on big
Pennsylvania wagons with six horses in Philadelphia, and hauled
through to Mansfield, which took from five to six weeks; on the
return of the team they loaded with ginseng, beeswax, feathers,
cranberries, butter and maple sugar. During the time he
was with Hugh McFall he served as Deputy Postmaster for
eight years and six months; did all the business in post-office
department: through his fidelity, economy and energy he
succeeded in accumulating some means; then engaged in business
for himself in general merchandise, as was usually the custom in
those times. He was married in 1839 to Ann C. Leiter;
she was born in Washington Co., Md.; died in Mansfield June 7,
1850. They had the following children: Henry, born
Mar. 31, 1840 (enlisted in the army during the rebellion; died
in Arkansas in 1862); Mary Felicia, born June 25,
1842, died July 20, 1876, (her death cast a gloom over the
entire community; she had the qualities of true
womanhood—religious and social—also a gentle and kind
disposition; she endeared herself to many friends and had no
enemies; she was a Christian and an earnest Sabbath school
worker); Richmond Smith, born Dec. 14, 1844;
Clara Ann, Feb. 8, 1848; died July 26,1875; Miss
Smith was for some time a teacher in the public schools;
she also won many friends through her kind and gentle
disposition; she was always ready to lend a helping hand in
matters pertaining to the good of those around her; although her
sufferings were intense, she bore them with Christian
resignation and departed in great peace. Mr.
Smith's second marriage occurred May 16, 1854, to Ann
Ward; she was born in Richland Co.; they have two
children: Ward Smith, born Oct. 1, 1856, was
married to Mattie Hart, of Mansfield, Nov. 9, 1879;
Rena May, born Aug. 8, 1860, she resides with her
parents in Mansfield. Mr. Smith has been
engaged quite extensively in the mercantile business, has filled
different positions of trust and honor, and has proven himself
worthy; also has added greatly to the improvements of this city;
has erected several fine buildings, among them the Opera Hall
building; he has always encouraged every public enterprise that
would be a benefit to the community and especially add to the
advancement of the city; he has also borne a portion of the
pioneers' burdens, and can look back when Mansfield was in its
infancy; he has grown up with the progress of the city, has
participated in the work of progression, and has been one to
help Mansfield raise up to her present status—one among the
number to say: "Let us have a good pioneer history of our
county," with a helping hand; he ranks among the first on the
list; this is characteristic of H. R. Smith.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 734 |
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City of Mansfield -
J. F. SMITH, dealer in coal; he is a
native of Knox Co.; he came to Mansfield six years ago; he is
engaged as coal dealer, and has on hand a good supply of all
kinds of coal, and delivers to all parts of the city; office on
North main street.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A., Graham
& Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 735 |
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Worthington Twp. -
JOHN D. SMITH, farmer; P. O. Newville Mr. Smith
is of English and German descent; he was born near Ashland,
Ohio, Jan. 11, 1852. He married William Darling's
second daughter, Selena, Nov. 25, 1873; Mrs. Smith,
at 4 years of age, left her father's house to live with her
Grandmother McCurdy, where she stayed till her
marriage; they then went to Indiana and bought 51¼
acres of land for $2,000, lived on it three years, when they
were called home to see her father die; they promised on his
death-bed to stay on the homestead until his son Winfred
became 21 years of age. They have one daughter,
Elizabeth Ann by name. For the rest of this
family history, see
Ann
McCurdy' s and S. M. Darling's biographies.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
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Washington Twp. -
JOHN S. SMITH, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Mansfield.
Mr. S. was born in Washington Co., Penn., Sept. 17, 1813;
came to Richland Co., in April, 1816. He was married to
Electa Ann Barnes Sept. 24, 1867; she was born
in this county May 6, 1838; they have four children two sons and
two daughters—Newel E., Jedadia, Leunyn and
Blanche E. Mrs. Elenor Smith lives
with Mr. Smith; she was born in Washington Co.,
Penn., Feb. 26, 1807; came to Richland Co. Apr. 17, 1817; she
was married to John K. Barnes Mar. 1, 1827; he was born
in the State of Virgma Oct. 1, 1801. John K. Barnes
went to the late war and never returned; she has been a member,
in good standing, of the Methodist Church for forty-six years.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 910 |
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City of Mansfield -
JONAS SMITH, JR., engineer; a resident of Mansfield, who
springs from an old Western Pennsylvania family; his father,
Henry E., was a native of Fayette Co., born in the year
1812; his mother, Margaret D. Carr, was born in
Pittsburgh in 1816; in after years, the parents removed to Ohio;
Jonas Smith, Jr., was born in Wooster,
Wayne Co., in 1849, and received his education at the Massillon
public schools; since 1867, he has been connected, as a fireman
and engineer, with a number of the leading railroads of the
West; for twelve and a half years, he was employed on the P.,
Ft. W. & C. R. R. and its divisions, as fireman and engineer,
respectively, and, afterward, on the T. & A. A. R. R.
Mr. Smith has the reputation of being a careful and
well-posted engineer, enjoying the confidence of railroad
officials wherever he has labored.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A., Graham
& Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 735 |
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City of Mansfield -
RICHMOND SMITH, (son of Hiram R. Smith), Secretary
of the Richland Mutual Insurance Co.; was born Dec. 14, 1844.
Married to Alice Dull, of Mansfield, Oct. 18, 1876.
Mr. Smith has been very efficient in his labors, and has
aided greatly in raising the company to its present substantial
basis.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A., Graham
& Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 735 |
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Madison Twp. -
S. S. SMITH, farmer; P. O. Mansfield; he was born in
Madison Township Oct. 25, 1832. He was married to Miss
A. M. Palmer in 1857; she was born in Weller Township Oct.
7, 1833; they have two children—Howard T., born Aug. 30,
1871, and Ella, Apr. 16, 1873. His brother, N.
O. Smith, was born in Madison Township Oct. 23, 1834.
He enlisted in the late war in April, 1861, at the first call
for soldiers; he was killed at the Cheat River Valley June 29,
1861; he was a soldier of the O. V. I.; his remains were brought
to Mansfield and buried in the Woodhouse Cemetery; he was the
first soldier killed from Richland Co.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
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Plymouth Twp. -
DR. S. S. SMITH, manufacturer of Dr. Smith's
King of Cure; was born in Canada Dec. 12, 1822; the
Doctor came to Ohio in 1850, and to Plymouth in August, 1864;
commenced the study of medicine when quite young, and in 1861
commenced the practice; he has read a great many medical works,
and is pretty well posted in medicine of both schools, having
spent many years in the study of each, and finally settled down
on Homeopathy; he attended the Western Homoeopathic College, of
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1862-63, since which time he has been
following his profession; at the commencement of his practice,
he found the need of a reliable agent to act upon the
secretions, and not finding it in the general catalogue, he
began to study up a remedy. As a result of his years of
study and practice, has succeeded in placing before the public
and profession his "King of Cure," which is well known where the
Doctor has been making and prescribing it to his
patients, improving and testing its merits for over ten years
before putting it into market, except within the bounds of his
practice, where it has won for itself a reputation at home never
before equaled by any other remedy, as is shown by the thousands
of testimonials which it has received. The Doctor is well
known throughout the community, and has been very successful.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A.
A., Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 872 |
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Madison Twp. -
WILLIAM SMITH, farmer; P. O. Mansfield; he was born Feb.
22, 1816, in Columbiana Co. Was married to E. A. Freed
Mar. 21, 1844; she was born Jan. 10, 1824, also in the same
county; they have the following family: Martha Adelia,
born Feb. 22, 1845
Mary, July 14, 1847; Susan Ellen, Oct. 15, 1849
Franklin P., born Apr. 4, 1852; George Wilson,
Feb. 22, 1854; Zellettie, Dec. 14, 1856; Emma,
July 11, 1860 (deceased). They came to Richland Co. Apr.
1, 1866. Martha A. Smith was married to Reason
Newhouse May 14, 1865 (they reside in Columbiana Co.)
Mary was married to Clark T. Ludwig Feb. 10, 1870
(they reside in Bucyrus, Ohio); Franklin P. Smith was married to
Lizzie Martin (they reside in Jasper Co., Mo.);
George Wilson Smith was married to Jennie
Skyles July 16, 1878; Zellettie Smith was
married to Charlie Caldwell Aug. 28. 1878 (they
reside in Henrietta, Tex.; he is engaged in the mercantile
business); George and Jennie Smith
have one child—Lettie, born June 17, 1879.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 821 |
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City of Mansfield
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WILLIAM SMITH (deceased); he was born in Washington Co.,
Penn., Nov. 5, 1788, and was descended from an old Washington
Co. (Penn.) family; he came to this county in the fall of 1822,
and first settled on a tract of land about two miles east of
Mansfield, where he lived several years, when he purchased an
interest in what was then known as the Tingley &
Phearson carding machine and woolen factory, then located a
short distance north of town; he continued in this business
nearly three years, when he removed to Mansfield; two years
later, he purchased of Robert McCombs a tract of
land situated one and a half miles east of the court house, on
the Rocky Fork of the Mohican, at that time covered with a dense
forest; this he partially cleared, and on it he built a house,
where he lived and continued to improve the land; some years
afterward, he erected a carding machine and fulling-mill on the
stream, which he operated a few years, and then started a
flouring and grist mill, in which business he was engaged until
1844, when he removed to Mansfield, where he continued to reside
until his death, which occurred May 5, 1846. William
Smith was married in Washington Co., Penn., June 23, 1814,
to Miss Sarah Lyle, a native of that county, who was born
Feb. 1, 1794; they were the parents of twelve children—James,
born Feb. 7, 1815, died Aug. 9, 1863; Sarah A., Apr. 1,
1816; Robert Lyle, Apr. 11, 1818, died Dec. 14, 1831;
Abigail, June 28, 1820, died Oct. 6, 1831; William,
Feb. 28, 1822; David Lyle, Apr. 27, 1824; Mary
Jane, Mar. 4, 1826, died July 3, 1828; Rebecca, May
24, 1828, died Aug. 29, 1828; Ebenezer, Aug. 1, 1829,
died May 23, 1852; Robert Ray, born Oct. 9, 1881;
Samuel Lyle, Dec. 26, 1833, died Nov. 17, 1874;
Isabella, May 18, 1836, died Mar. 29, 1837. Mrs.
Mary Lyle Smith died at the house of her
son-in-law, Mr. James Clark, near
Mansfield, Oct. 3, 1876.
Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - Vol. II - A. A.,
Graham & Co., Publishers. 1807 - 1880 - Page 734 |
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